Indicator for vehicles.



M. A. MARTIN.

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MARGARET A. MARTIN, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR or ONE-FOURTH TO EDWIN WAPPLER, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

INDICATOR FOR VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 27, 1916.

Application filed March 8, 1909, Serial No. 482,108. Renewed April 20, 1910. Serial No. 556,620.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARGARET A. MAR- TIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Indicators for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to illuminated indicators for vehicles, that is to devices designed for displaying the registration or license number of a vehicle.

The object of my invention is to provide a transparency of the character mentioned adapted to show by day and also adapted to be illuminated to distinctly display at night the license number and also indicate the State in which the number is registered of the owner of the vehicle to which the device is attached.

A further object of my invention is to provide a transparency which will be adapted to display not only the vehicle license number and-to indicate the State of the registration thereof, but which will also be adaptedv to serve in the capacity of a rear signal light and also side signal lights for the vehicle; it being as is known a requirement of the law,

safety with such light A further object is to provide a device of the nature stated which will be of the highest possible efliciency though comparatively simple of construction. Qther objects will appear hereinafter.

With these objects in view my invention consists in a transparency characterized as above mentioned and in certain. details of construction and arrangement of parts all as will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

My invention will be more readily understood by reference toithe accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view ofthe preferred form of my device, a portion of the door thereof being broken away soas to better illustrate its construction, Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof, the end wall being broken away .to expose rearwardly lying part-s, Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of an end portion of the device, taken on the line at the present time, that vehicles such as automobiles be equipped for .shape.

a w of Fig. 2, Fig. 4: is central vertical longitudinal section thereof, and Fig. 5 is a similar section of a slightly modified form of my device.

Referring now to the drawings 1 indicates the preferably elongated rectangularly formed body of my indicator, the front side of which is open, any suitable sheet metal. Arranged upon the body 1, the same being adapted to close the front side of said body, is a door 2 hung upon hinges 3. Provided at the lower edge of thedoor 2, the same being preferably positioned one at either extremity thereof, are bolts 4 vertically slidable in loops 5 preferably soldered to said door. The lower extremities of said bolts are adapted to be received in loops 6 provided for the reception of the same close to the base of the body 1. Formed in the door 2 are openings 7, 8 and 9, the openings 7 representing numbers corresponding to the license number. of the vehicle upon which the device is used, the openings 8 provided preferably at the right end portion thereof representing letters indicating the name of the State in which the license is registered. The opening 9 provided at the opposite end portion of said door is relatively large in dimensions and is preferably circular in Arranged upon the inside surface of said door, the same being secured thereto in any suitable manner, but.preferably by means of elongated flanges 10 engaging the upper and lower edges thereof, and shorter similar flangesll engaging the lateral eX-- tremities thereof, is a translucent plate 12 preferably of ground glass and contiguous thereto ored translucent or transparent plate 13 preferably of red or green colored glass, the former of said plates being arranged rearwardlv of the openings 7 and 8, and the latter thereof rearwardly of the opening 9. By such provision, when the device is in use, the latter opening may serve in the capacity of a rear light for the vehicle.

Each of the end walls 14 of the body 1 is provided with a circular opening 15 rearwardly of which is arranged a colored translucent or transparent plate 16 preferably of red or greenv colored glass, the same being secured in position by means of a flange 17 secured preferably by soldering'to the insaid body being formed of I and in alinement therewith a col- 'of a reservoir 19 common 2 979,526 ner surface of the wall 14, the same engagreadily be effected to facilitate the cleaning ing the edges of said glass. Such openings thereof.

are adapted, when the device is in use, to While I have shown what I deem to be adapt the latter to act in the capacity of the preferable form of my device, I do not side li hts for the vehicle. wish to be limited thereto, as there might be I many changes made in the details of con- Formed in the bottom of the body 1, by means of a horizontally disposed longitudistruction and arrangement of parts Without departing from the spirit of my invention nally extending partition or false bottom 18,

is a fuel reservoir 19. Communicating with comprehended within the appended claims.

said reservoir, the same being preferably in Having described my invention what I threaded connection with tubular seats 20 claim as new and desire to secure by Letprovided upon the portion 18 for the supters Patent is:

port thereof, are burners 21 of any ordinary 1. In an indicator of the class described, the combination of a body; two burners or preferred construction. Arranged rear- I wardly oftheburners 21,the same being fixed within the body; a front wall for said body having openings indicative of the license to the upper surface of the portion 18 are curved reflector plates 22, the outward edge number of a vehicle; a danger signal openportion of either of which is cut away as at ing in said front wall adjacent the aforesaid 23 so as to permit of the passage of light openings; translucent plates mounted be rays emitted from the burners to the openhind said ings 15. Ventilating holes 24 are provided having danger signal openings; translucent in the top and the upper portion of the rear plates behind said last mentioned openings; wall of the body 21, those provided in the and substantially semi-cylindrical reflectors top wall being covered by an arched protectbehind said burners, having openings in ing plate or shield 26 the longitudinal edges their sides behind said openings in said end of which are secured preferably by soldering Walls, substantially as described. to the upper longitudinally extending edges 2. In an indicator of the class described, of the body 1. the combination of a body; a hinged door Lugs 27, each being provided with a slot having license number openings and a cir- 28 and a set-screw 29, the same being secular signal opening therein; top, bottom cured to the rear wall of the body 1, one at and side flanges on the inside of said door; either extremity thereof by means preferground and colored glass plates secured in ably of rivets 30, afford means of securing said flanges end walls having circular openthe indicator upon a vehicle. The slots 28 ings therein; flanges on the insides of said provided in said lugs are preferably of a end walls; glass plates secured in said end shape as shown so as to adapt the same to wall flanges; burners in the body; and semireceive brackets of either the round or the flat type.

cylindrical reflectors having openings in their sides and mounted behind said burn- The modification in the form shown in Fig. 5 lies wholly inthe fuel reservoirs of ers, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my the burners thereof. In said form instead to both the burnname to this specification in the presence of ers 21, as in my preferred form, each of the two subscribing witnesses. burners 21 is provided with an individual MARGARET MARTIN reservoir 31. Said reservoirs are in thread- I Witnesses: ed connection with the bottom of the indi- J OSHUA R. H. Po'r'rs, cator body, hence their detachment may HELEN F. LILLIs.

openings; end walls for said body V 

